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 April 26, 2026 |
Good morning. Investigators are searching for a motive after a shooting in the hotel where the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was taking place last night. President Trump was unharmed.
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| At the Washington Hilton last night. Salwan Georges for The New York Times |
Trump was rushed offstage after a man armed with a shotgun, a handgun and knives charged a security checkpoint. Gunfire rang out just after the dinner began, and Trump, the first lady and hundreds of journalists looked up from their conversations. “Shots fired,” a member of the Secret Service shouted. Then agents, their guns drawn, sprinted to reach the president. Guests dressed in gowns and tuxedos hid under their seats. See the dramatic video.
The man was tackled by law enforcement officers and was taken into custody. A Secret Service officer was shot but was “saved” by his bulletproof vest, Trump said.
Trump posted two images of a man he said was the attacker being detained. He also posted surveillance footage on social media of a man making a mad dash through the cavernous halls of the hotel.
Trump held a news conference in the White House briefing room later last night, still dressed in his tuxedo and bow tie, to talk about the events of the evening.
“Well, thank you very much,” he said. “That was very unexpected!”
Melania Trump stood near him, looking stoic. The president said that it was “a rather traumatic experience for her.”
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| President Trump at the White House last night. Salwan Georges for The New York Times |
Here’s what else we know.
The suspect: Two law enforcement officials have identified Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, Calif., as the suspect in the shooting. Federal authorities surrounded his home late Saturday.
At the hotel: See maps of the gunman’s movements inside the Washington Hilton, where the dinner was taking place.
Inside the ballroom: Attendees dropped to the floor, crouching beside chairs and ducking under tables as a sense of danger spread through the room.
Party postponed: Trump said that he had hoped to continue the dinner, because he didn’t want “sick people” to “change the fabric of our life,” but that he ultimately decided to reschedule it. Some afterparties, however, continued as scheduled.
Security threats: After two previous assassination attempts against Trump, this latest incident is reigniting the conversation about political violence in the U.S.
Follow the latest news of the shooting here.
THE LATEST NEWS |
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Other Big Stories
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THE SUNDAY DEBATE |
Britain passed a law that aims to permanently ban the sale of tobacco products to anyone born on or after Jan. 1, 2009, with the goal of creating a “smoke-free generation.” Will this ban be effective?
Yes. It will prevent people from picking up the habit, and it will help smokers who are trying to quit do so, Sarah Woolnough writes for the King’s Fund, a British public health think tank: “Generations of smokers have been recruited as children, with four in five starting before the age of 20.”
No. It will push people to buy tobacco on the black market and create two different classes of adults, writes Reem Ibrahim writes for Reason: “Smoking is harmful, but adults ought to be free to weigh risks, make decisions for themselves and live with the consequences.”
FROM OPINION |
The Cuban artist and activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara is in prison for speaking out against his government. “My survival and my ongoing work as an artist are symbols of hope,” he writes.
Officials should combat growing vaccine skepticism with stricter exemption requirements and more communication of their effectiveness, the editorial board writes.
Here is a column by Ross Douthat on Elon Musk and the SAVE America Act.
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MORNING READS |
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| Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato |
Leading the way: Want to know where men’s fashion is heading? Look to Japan.
Apocalypse, now? Why do so many Americans believe in the rapture?
Philosopher’s Stone: The rich and powerful hope, and perhaps even believe, that death might be eradicated.
Land bridge: A new idea to save the climate? Dam the Bering Strait, the narrow waterway between Russia and Alaska.
A Foreign Service officer: Lionel Rosenblatt led a mission to help evacuate South Vietnamese citizens from Saigon days before the city fell in 1975. He died at 82.
SPORTS |
N.F.L.: The Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens and Philadelphia Eagles appear to be the biggest winners of the draft, while the Carolina Panthers, San Francisco 49ers and Jacksonville Jaguars made head-scratching selections.
M.L.B.: The Boston Red Sox fired its manager, Alex Cora, shortly after beating the Baltimore Orioles 17-1 in the team’s most lopsided win of the season.
N.H.L.: The postseason used to be known for brawls on the ice and trash talk off it. Now the game has changed — for the better if you like skill and talent, but for the worse, if you’re a fan who used to revel in the hatred.
BOOK OF THE WEEK |
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“The Ending Writes Itself” by Evelyn Clarke: Seven authors converge on a private island at the behest of a famous mystery writer, believing they’ve been invited to a literary salon. It turns out, their host is dead and the real agenda for the weekend consists of finishing his final book. “There’s a reason the closed-circle mystery is so beloved,” our reviewer wrote. “A good thriller is all about stakes, and locking up your suspects (and victims) in one space and throwing away the key is a surefire way to send those stakes sky-high.” Clarke, who is actually two people — V.E. Schwab (“The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue”) and Cat Clarke (“Girlhood,” “Entangled”) — pulls this off this publishing satire with aplomb. Read our review.
THE INTERVIEW |
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| Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times |
This week’s subject for The Interview is Bob Odenkirk, who’s gone from a sketch comedy hero to a dramatic actor to an action star. His new movie, “Normal,” is in theaters.
What comedy speaks to you now?
Honestly, the comedy that speaks to me most right now is a thing called “On Cinema.” It’s a pretend movie review show that’s on the internet by my friend Tim Heidecker. This is kind of a sketch comic thing, drawn out and slowed down. I think sketch comedy, I’m sorry to say, is the most profound expression of human existence there is.
Really?
I don’t think any Kubrick movie or Freudian analysis or ——
Shakespeare?
Or Shakespeare, says as much about how humans operate and what is the ultimate problem with us as a species than sketch comedy. I wish it was not true. I wish that we were worthy of being taken apart and observed in subtle and complex ways. But I don’t think so. I think that ultimately there is nothing more profound about people than you can say in a sketch. They’re [expletive] idiots! People are sadly limited, so limited that you can define them and you can share everything that’s important about them in four minutes.
Maybe this is related: Near the end of your memoir, you write that show business is not curing cancer and that it’s a distraction, “which is inarguably key to life on earth because life on Earth is so bleak and painful and the only and best response to that is to LOOK AWAY!”
Yeah. [Long pause] You want me to repudiate that statement?
I wondered if you were being sarcastic when you wrote that. It struck me as ——
Bleak?
Pretty bleak.
Too sad? I don’t know what to say, man. I pretty much do think that’s true. Obviously, there’s joy and reward in being alive and in the ways in which we look away to transform that horror — the horror, the horror — into something good, entertaining, comforting to another person, that’s beautiful. That’s the joy of life: turning [expletive] into gold. Comedy gold, whatever gold you can make it into. To me, that’s the good part.
Read more of the interview here. Or watch a longer version on YouTube.
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Here is today’s Spelling Bee. Yesterday’s pangrams were oenophile and pinhole.
Can you put eight historical events — including the founding of Apple, the “I Have a Dream” speech and the first dunce cap — in chronological order? Take this week’s Flashback quiz.
And here are today’s Mini Crossword, Wordle, Crossplay, Connections and Strands.
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